Efficacy of powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) for source control of simulated respiratory aerosols-dataset

Powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs) are a popular alternative to the use of filtering facepiece respirators by healthcare workers. Although PAPRs protect the wearer from aerosol particles, their ability to block infectious aerosol particles exhaled by the wearer from being released into the environment (called source control) is unclear.